SlapOS, an efficient all-in-one cloud

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Introduces SlapOS, a decentralised Free Software cloud that uses standard Unix process/user separation to run VMs, containers, bare-metal PaaS and more across distributed nodes (including home servers and 42+ public clouds). Shows concrete tooling: ERP5 for billing/orchestration, Buildout and supervisord for deployment/monitoring, and command-line examples for adding nodes and deploying databases, VMs and LAMP apps. Presents a case study porting the Mioga collaborative Extranet to SlapOS with Buildout recipes, Slaprunner integration, automated supervision/backups and deployment recipes.

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